Thomas Dabbs speaks with John Yamamoto-Wilson, Sophia University, Tokyo, (retired) about his book entitled 'Pain, Pleasure, and Perversity', about rare early modern books, Shakespeare and also about his YouTube channel, Ano Sensei.
SEGMENTS:
0:00:00 Intro
0:02:05 Pain, Pleasure, and Perversity / Clark's Martyrology
0:06:10 Research at Cambridge / Attitudes toward suffering
0:07:35 John's education / Family and religious background
0:09:20 Peter Milward / Sophia / Shakespeare as a Catholic?
0:18:00 John as antiquarian / Digitizing (scanning) rare books / Gunpowder plot
0:23:24 Early English Book Online (EEBO) searching / David McInnis, Lost Plays, OED
0:27:38 Consciousness revealed through digital searches / religious doctrines
0:29:05 Early modern religion, pain and pleasure and suffering
0:35:14 Early modern perversity, religious to secular print and drama
0:41:51 Ano Sensei / English language training / British poetry and history
0:44:35 Ano Sensei and the enormous global interest in British poetry
0:49:20 The accuracy of auto-generated subtitles
0:57:02 John as a mentor to the SOS program, given to teaching
0:59:17 John's youth and formative years / education / graduate education
1:08:15 Setbacks, and back to Spain then Japan:
1:13:30 Utilitarian approaches to ESL vs content and cultural studies
1:19:38 Recent and new on Ano Sensei and closing remarks
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